Cameo and Friends is Finished!!!

Inspired by the sun and the sea, my love of fabric and my obsession with color. This is Cameo and Friends.

It all started with the fabric, a combination of Cameo by Amy Butler, Birds and Bees by Tula Pink and solids from Art Gallery. My original stack did not include the zingy tomato red. Looking at it now, I can't imagine this quilt without it.

I was originally thinking of making a small patchwork quilt with the blue and green colors to imitate the looks of glass mosaic tiles. I made a test block and it was good, but I felt it was missing something. Around that same time, Katy and Audrey were obsessed with making Scrap Vomit quilts. They were cranking out one after another and the quilts they made were so fun and scrappy. Something about these two ideas merged in my mind. When I added the coral and the alternating blocks the design finally felt right.

I made the strip sets earlier this year and set it aside for awhile. In early October I picked it up again and decided it was time to finish. Pinning all of the 2" squares was tedious, but it was made more fun with friends when I brought it to a local sew night. This quilt measures 70" x 84".

The main print of the back is also from the Cameo line by Amy Butler. It's called Harriet's Kitchen and I really love it's large scale. The colors were perfect for this project. It's bound with the same red, Kona Coral, that I used on the front.

I quilted it in diagonal lines across each square with this fun variegated cotton thread by Sulky. Again, the colors were perfect!

Read more about the process of making this quilt from the orgininal mood board, to the strip sets, the rediscovery, and the building of the top.

Cameo in Progress

Binding, Backing and Finished Top

After running out of solids, buying more solids and a sewing night with friends, the top is complete! I'm hoping I can finish it in time to enter it into Blogger's Quilt Festival next week. The backing and binding are all picked out. Now I just have to figure out how to make room to baste it. You might find me out in the driveway this afternoon.

Previously blogged here, here and here.


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Cameo & Friends... Again

Strip sets ready to go

There is something about moving house that makes you re-examine what you have. Like many quilters, I have a lot of fabric and a lot of unfinished projects. Some of my older projects have resurfaced and I'm excited to work on them again.

Multi-tasking in the morning

Over the past week I've picked up the pieces to my Cameo and Friends quilt. I started this in February as an experiment in color and blending fabric patterns. I have long admired Katy's Scrap Vomit quilt(s) and I wanted to see what it would look like with a more limited palette and fabric selection. 

My version is still scrappy but less vomit-y. Ok, hopefully not vomit-y at all. I really love these fabrics together (a mix of Cameo by Amy Butler, Birds and Bees by Tula Pink, a few art gallery blenders and a handful of solids). If you've never heard of scrap vomit quilts before, you must read all about how it got it's name on Katy's blog.

Sewing buddies with my buddy

The strip sets were already together and this week I started making blocks. It's been fun, one morning my daughter helped me pick out the buddies (strip sets) before school and one night I found myself pinning while watching football with my husband. Go Niners!

So many seams!

After the kids go to bed, I turn into a stitching machine, getting as much done as I can before my eyes get too heavy... or I run out of bobbin thread... or I break a needle. All signs it's time for a break.

Hey, it's starting to look like something

Piecing together these tiny squares started to feel a bit endless. It wasn't until I started piecing the rows together that it finally started to look like something. I kind of love it! : ) One row down, four more to go.

LINKS

Fabric details in this post, Cameo & Friends

Strips piecing and beginnings, Quilting for Fun

Scrap Vomit on Katy's blog, I'm A Ginger Monkey